Non-amenability and spontaneous symmetry breaking -- the hyperbolic spin-chain

DOI10.1007/S00023-005-0233-9zbMATH Open1088.82007arXivhep-th/0312293OpenAlexW2016501212MaRDI QIDQ2580950FDOQ2580950

Authors: Erhard Seiler, Max Niedermaier 

Publication date: 10 January 2006

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The hyperbolic spin chain is used to elucidate the notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking for a non-amenable internal symmetry group, here SO(1,2). The noncompact symmetry is shown to be spontaneously broken -- something which would be forbidden for a compact group by the Mermin-Wagner theorem. Expectation functionals are defined through the L o infty limit of a chain of length L; the functional measure is found to have its weight mostly on configurations boosted by an amount increasing at least powerlike with L. This entails that despite the non-amenability a certain subclass of noninvariant functions is averaged to an SO(1,2) invariant result. Outside this class symmetry breaking is generic. Performing an Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction based on the infinite volume averages one finds that the reconstructed quantum theory is different from the original one. The reconstructed Hilbert space is nonseparable and contains a separable subspace of ground states of the reconstructed transfer operator on which SO(1,2) acts in a continuous, unitary and irreducible way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312293

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zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingLie groupOsterwalder-Schrader reconstructionnon-amenability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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